If this person has shown, through their own actions, that they do not want to be a productive part of the community why should we take their suggestions seriously? The value in their suggestions is lessened because of the way they have acted in the past and the way they may continue acting.

One person making the choice to not promote the shit out of there stream isn't going to have the affect you think it will, especially as that person has shown an interest in getting more popular poker players involved.

"Likewise, if I log into the poker section...they must not be very good". "

You won't have this happening though, especially with players getting more involved. You're going to have a top dog streaming who has mad numbers and those will lower as you go down the list. What Molni was saying is that Marcel is working with getting other poker players streaming to grow the community on twitch. Marcel himself having a small stream doesn't affect those other individuals from joining the community.

I definitely agree that it would be grow the community faster if Marcel social media spammed and had a 10k viewers stream, however Marcel streaming to a smaller viewer count doesn't have an effect on Marcel getting other poker players involved in growing the community. If Marcel wants to have a smaller stream which is more interactive he can still get his friends streaming on there and get more people involved in creating the community.

Correct, people need to be watching it. However working with other pros to get them streaming on twitch to blow up isn't necessarily negatively affected by him streaming to a smaller audience. The community will grow by having more pros streaming while his community may start smaller. Having 10 different people streaming to a cumulative 10k viewers is a lot better for growing a community than 1 person streaming to 10k viewers, initially at least. If he's smart he will eventually start announcing the stream but allowing the community to blow up by getting more streamers involved and having a smaller stream on his own are not two mutually exclusive states. You can have one and have the other. He could also start streaming to a larger audience right off of the bat but he can also start by creating a close knit community on his own.

Creating a community of content creators allows the streaming community to blow up, not tweeting it out means he can increase the interactivity of his stream and create a community of dedicated viewers before he rapidly increases his viewerbase through his social media.

People have an idea of lines to take that make sense, to them, in a lot of common situations. When you see people making strange plays that make no sense it, in my experience, has usually been because they managed to make the absolute nuts and don't know what to do.

When I first started playing live I had a similar issue, I overcame it by focusing on my breathing and staring at one spot on the felt. To control my breathing I breathed in through my mouth and out through my nose, focusing on that pattern and on nothing else in the game.

Over time I realized that a lot of people are more worried about what THEY are doing or what THEY are giving off then what you are doing which allowed me to become more calm and secure at the table. Really it's all about keeping control and getting comfortable.